Yes the price is competitive against a comparable system from another A-brand.
However, I can get a new Athlon XP system for under 400 euro, sure the specs are nowhere near the iMac, and sure it doesn't look as good as the Mac, Who cares ? My desktop system is still a Duron 700, and I don't really feel the need to upgrade it, it gets the job done. I use it to read my mail, surf the web and listen to my music. Right now, I'm running Debian Linux with KDE, I would love to run OS X, but I'd have to buy a designer machine with specs I don't need for a price 3 times as high as a generic x86 with the 'right' specs.
What I would love, is a 400 euro solution that will allow me to read my mail, surf the web and play my music, while running OS X.
Apart from it being in the US where imperial (miles) is the standard.
Actually, Metric is the standard in the US since President Gerald R. Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975. However, conversion to metric was/is entirely voluntary (there used to be a 10 year deadline but it got dropped) so no-one actually switched.
we really do not know too much about how nuclear weapons age, thus cutting the funding for those who research this would be most unwise. Maybe you (the US) should have thought of that before you built the damn things.
Lots of games nowadays are based on off-the-shelf game engines, this won't be that much of a problem, you'll write the engine once for every platform and the game developers only have to program against the API the game engine exposes.
Look at games like Quake and Unreal, they are no more than tech-demo's to sell the engine, that's where the real money is to be made.
I live in a country where there actually is such a thing as consumer protection (the netherlands) and the funny thing is, most people don't know about it so the stores still try to rip you off with a service plan. According to consumer law they're supposed to give you (limited) warranty for at least the reasonable life expectancy of the device. e.g. if you bought something you expect to last for 10 years, and it breaks down after 5, they should at least cover half of the repair costs. Stores usually try to weasel themselfs out of this by pointing to their general terms for buying stuff there, luckily, the law also says you can't use that to remove consumer rights.
I pay around 15 euro's a month for my mobile service (which is about a billion dollars, not that the service is so expensive, but dollars aren't worth the paper they are printed on nowadays), it includes 75 minutes of use (you can save up unused minutes to a max. of 150), more than enough for me (all my bills say "minutes left: 150"), I can call anywhere I like, I can use it to surf the internet on my PDA.
If I, however, would use a land line, I would not only pay twice the monthly fee, I'd actually have to start paying for usage. furthermore, I can only call or be called when I'm at home, which is not very often.
Land lines are completely useless, you can only reach people who happen to be at home.
Seriously though, maybe you should learn her about the von Neumann architecture, and let her play with a simple implementation of it. At the very least it let's her help understand the basics of computing.
It was never Holland, there are two provinces in the Netherlands with Holland in the name Noord holland en Zuid Holland (North & South Holland). The dutch name for the country is Nederland which translates more or less directly to "the netherlands".
If you call something the MYRIGHTS-B-GONE act then lots of people will vote against, call the same bill the PATRIOT act, and if you vote against, you're not a patriot, you don't love America, and you're probably a communist who wants to destroy democracy.
It already did, there was a raid yesterday in 8 countries targeted at 'Fairlight' (warez group). I live on a university campus in the netherlands and 2 dormitories were raided, in total there have been raids in 14 houses in the netherlands alone.
Press release (in dutch, couldn't find an english one, too lazy to translate)
The article concludes explaining that when San Francisco and Seattle ended their RFID pilot programs, they 'switched back to bar-code systems, saying the radio systems were unnecessary.'
But RFID is the Next Big Thing(tm) how could anyone not need it ?
And the record companies don't seem to get that, If I had all my music only in CD form, listening music would be a quite a pain-in-the-butt. There's about 10 songs on an average CD nowadays, so that would mean switching CD's about every 45 minutes, assuming that I want to listen all the songs on the CD, which I don't. In practice it means:
Finding the correct CD
Putting the CD in the stereo
'zap' to the song I want to hear
*listen*
Take out the CD
Put CD back in storage
Find next CD
repeat while(true)
So in stead of assembling a playlist with good music and then sit back and relax for a while. I'd be running back and forth between my stereo and the CD storage.
And I'm not even talking about the hassle of driving to town to get the bloody CD's in the first place.
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No, I'm saying: I don't care about the looks, get me a cheap box that can run OS X
That would require me to use the crappy iMac monitor, I have a great 19" Iiyama, just want a Boring Grey Box that I can swap with my current set-up.
Yes the price is competitive against a comparable system from another A-brand.
However,
I can get a new Athlon XP system for under 400 euro, sure the specs are nowhere near the iMac, and sure it doesn't look as good as the Mac, Who cares ? My desktop system is still a Duron 700, and I don't really feel the need to upgrade it, it gets the job done. I use it to read my mail, surf the web and listen to my music.
Right now, I'm running Debian Linux with KDE, I would love to run OS X, but I'd have to buy a designer machine with specs I don't need for a price 3 times as high as a generic x86 with the 'right' specs.
What I would love, is a 400 euro solution that will allow me to read my mail, surf the web and play my music, while running OS X.
The original memory stick supported up to 128 MB, the 256 MB cards 'cheated' by using a switch allowing you to switch between 2 128MB banks.
we really do not know too much about how nuclear weapons age, thus cutting the funding for those who research this would be most unwise.
Maybe you (the US) should have thought of that before you built the damn things.
Lots of games nowadays are based on off-the-shelf game engines, this won't be that much of a problem, you'll write the engine once for every platform and the game developers only have to program against the API the game engine exposes.
Look at games like Quake and Unreal, they are no more than tech-demo's to sell the engine, that's where the real money is to be made.
I live in a country where there actually is such a thing as consumer protection (the netherlands) and the funny thing is, most people don't know about it so the stores still try to rip you off with a service plan. According to consumer law they're supposed to give you (limited) warranty for at least the reasonable life expectancy of the device. e.g. if you bought something you expect to last for 10 years, and it breaks down after 5, they should at least cover half of the repair costs.
Stores usually try to weasel themselfs out of this by pointing to their general terms for buying stuff there, luckily, the law also says you can't use that to remove consumer rights.
The vote was changed because the parliament was misinformed about software patents.
So 1 inch is 2.54cm. then 1 foot is 25.4 cm ? 1 yard is 254.0 cm ? etc. ?
You can't derive the rest if you don't know the seemingly randomly chosen number of $units in a $biggerunit.
Serves the UK right for not joining the EMU (European Monetary Union).
;)
Still, the EMU countries pay too much compared to the US, €0,99 converts to aprox. $500
I pay around 15 euro's a month for my mobile service (which is about a billion dollars, not that the service is so expensive, but dollars aren't worth the paper they are printed on nowadays), it includes 75 minutes of use (you can save up unused minutes to a max. of 150), more than enough for me (all my bills say "minutes left: 150"), I can call anywhere I like, I can use it to surf the internet on my PDA.
If I, however, would use a land line, I would not only pay twice the monthly fee, I'd actually have to start paying for usage. furthermore, I can only call or be called when I'm at home, which is not very often.
Land lines are completely useless, you can only reach people who happen to be at home.
You'd be better of teaching her BASIC, at least that one teaches something about control structures, variables and I/O.
How about Brainfuck ?
Seriously though, maybe you should learn her about the von Neumann architecture, and let her play with a simple implementation of it. At the very least it let's her help understand the basics of computing.
HTML is a markup language and has little to do with programming.
It was never Holland, there are two provinces in the Netherlands with Holland in the name Noord holland en Zuid Holland (North & South Holland). The dutch name for the country is Nederland which translates more or less directly to "the netherlands".
If you call something the MYRIGHTS-B-GONE act then lots of people will vote against, call the same bill the PATRIOT act, and if you vote against, you're not a patriot, you don't love America, and you're probably a communist who wants to destroy democracy.
This gives me a great idea for a movie: "Speed 3: Dead in the water".
My phone t610's battery lasts for at least a week AND it has a (crappy) camera.
Teleporters are sooo 2003, MoIP (Matter-over-IP) is the Next Big Thing(tm).
It already did, there was a raid yesterday in 8 countries targeted at 'Fairlight' (warez group).
I live on a university campus in the netherlands and 2 dormitories were raided, in total there have been raids in 14 houses in the netherlands alone.
Press release (in dutch, couldn't find an english one, too lazy to translate)
I don't want an actual packaged CD.
And the record companies don't seem to get that, If I had all my music only in CD form, listening music would be a quite a pain-in-the-butt. There's about 10 songs on an average CD nowadays, so that would mean switching CD's about every 45 minutes, assuming that I want to listen all the songs on the CD, which I don't.
In practice it means:
So in stead of assembling a playlist with good music and then sit back and relax for a while. I'd be running back and forth between my stereo and the CD storage.
And I'm not even talking about the hassle of driving to town to get the bloody CD's in the first place.